Willie Parra

Willie is from Chile and has had a 28-year career, guiding from the Atacama Desert to Cape Horn in Chile. He started scuba diving in 1993 becoming a Divemaster, later worked as an NACD Cave Diver in Mexico. When studying Ecotourism, he started mountaineering, taking that to a professional level. He has been guiding in South America for many years, including the “Aconcagua” (6.962 mts). In 2014 he was a guide and base camp manager for an Everest Expedition in Nepal. His first steps in the white continent were in 2006, leading multi day technical expeditions on land, setting campsites in the Antarctic peninsula. He has been part of Antarctica21 since 2015, as Mountain Guide. He believes strongly that Antarctica is one of the last pristine corners of the planet, where the human being is still considered as equal and not feared by its wonderful creatures, thus offering a unique opportunity to experience them “up close”. Now he guides year round in Antarctica and also in the Arctic.